10 Years Ago Today,

Heather and I were unloading our U-Haul in Covington, LA to begin a Church Planting journey. We’ve added 20 lbs (that’s me, not Heather), a few gray hairs, 2 more Corley’s, lots of great friendships and changed lives, not a few sleepless nights and lessons learned. And now I’m more convinced than ever that:

God is a great provider and is sufficient for any and every situation.

God is a sender. And sometime he sends us into uncertainty and high water.

Experience in church planting just means you know how difficult its going to be.

New churches are needed to reach the 60% of people who are not being sought by current ministry models.

Church must become more reproducible and easily multiplied if we’re going to reach the world for Christ.

A good wife is more valuable than a seminary degree. Or anything else I can think of for that matter.

Church Planters have more fun.

I’ve kept a journal of things I’ve overheard and noted over the past 10 years. Sharing some of that later.